Stelio Kontos
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This thread screams Rob Schremp
Add 1st round picks like Gilbert Brule, John Moore, Pascal Leclaire, Ryan Murray, Marco Dano, Sonny Milano, Liam Foudy and you understand why this franchise has struggled so badly.Blue Jackets have had 4 first round picks that finished their NHL career with less than one full season of games played.
Alexandre Picard (4oa), Kerby Rychel (19oa), Nikita Filatov (6oa), Gabriel Carlsson and (29oa).
Of those guys Picard and Filatov played a few more years over in Europe at least, while Rychel called it quits after a couple of years in the minors. Jury is out on Carlsson but he'll probably play in Europe for a while.
Tyler Biggs and Stuart Percy lol
Great actor though and solid radio personality in Edmonton these days.Terry Ryan
Habs 95
8th over all.
Iginla went 11th.
Ryan had a cup of coffee
The disrespect of Ali Berg needs to stop. Dude was warrior and actually really good player that has become a meme before meme existed. Aki deserves much better.Aki Berg
He’s played over 200 NHL games and probably plays another 5 more seasons.Michael McCarron
Marek Zagrapan, Dennis Persson, Artem Kryukov.
Zagrapan is the most "successful" of the group, with some ok AHL numbers and some decent euro seasons, but still nothing great.
At one point, Angelo Esposito looked like a slam dunk first overall pick.
Then fell to 20th.
Then full time bum.
The disrespect of Ali Berg needs to stop. Dude was warrior and actually really good player that has become a meme before meme existed. Ali deserves much better.
Good. Cause he sure wasn't and NHL erGreat actor though and solid radio personality in Edmonton these days.
Aki "Andy Wang" BergThe disrespect of Ali Berg needs to stop. Dude was warrior and actually really good player that has become a meme before meme existed. Aki deserves much better.
Tyler Boucher seems to be trending this way.Jay O’Brien is the most recent example
Marek Zagrapan, Dennis Persson, Artem Kryukov.
Zagrapan is the most "successful" of the group, with some ok AHL numbers and some decent euro seasons, but still nothing great.
Somehow I completely missed that he was a first round pick, and 12th overall no less. It's worth noting though that he was drafted as a defensive d-man and only really switched to forward full time when he joined the Leafs, so offense and production shouldn't be weighed as heavily for him, but you're not wrong that if he wasn't a goon he probably wouldn't have been playing at anything more than ECHL level.Wade Belak (RIP) played a good number of games in the NHL, but I don't think he was really an NHL-calibre player. He put up poor numbers in other Leagues as well and was basically just a Dead Puck Era goon. He really struggled after the Lockout. He was a poor skater and had no offensive ability at all.
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